Can you post a link for those of us out of area?
Avian flu Protection Measures in force.
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You can watch whatever region you choose if you have Freesat, Sky etc can't you? I know I can.
Just watch it later this evening when it is on. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mj5w
Thanks. I have Sky, just a bit of a div!
Daniel
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- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Here's the link, first item.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08cw2w1/look-east-evening-news-09022017
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08cw2w1/look-east-evening-news-09022017
Second case of bird flu confirmed in Northern Ireland.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-38928419
The restrictions on poultry flocks have been extended to 16th March - right up to the 12 week deadline for free range status.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-38928419
The restrictions on poultry flocks have been extended to 16th March - right up to the 12 week deadline for free range status.
This is all becoming a bit of a joke really. It's obviously no joke for those inside the blobs. Someone like the NFU should be seriously questioning the way that these blobs are laid out @Guy Smith . If you look the iPlayer link above you have one guy in the clear and another 3 fields away facing a very serious problem. That is not right but it's typical. Can the NFU help here?
Daniel
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- Mildenhall, Suffolk
The NFU poultry rep is a chap called Gary Ford, he's onside though DEFRA don't appear to be listening as yet. Lobbying from the BEIC and BFREPA is underway today.
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- SG9
Anyone know anything about a Norfolk outbreak?
Good to see Gary Ford getting a positive mention.
More information here
https://www.nfuonline.com/sectors/poultry/
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- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Bad news as DEFRA announces an H5N8 outbreak in Redgrave, Suffolk
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/controls-for-avian-influenza-introduced-around-site-in-suffolk
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/controls-for-avian-influenza-introduced-around-site-in-suffolk
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- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
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- Hayling Island
This is very bad news and makes a mockery of DEFRA`s higher risk area map. Perhaps now they will realise they can only lift the housing order when the whole country is clear. If it means not labeling eggs as free range then we must press for an extension from the EU.We cannot risk spreading this disease further especially after present measures have helped to restrict the spread.
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- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
The easiest thing would be for a UK Government to grant free range status for those having to house birds under their restrictions. No farmer has withdrawn the free range facilities, just that they can't be used
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- MK43
The problem comes with the public perception of free range if this drags on for several months. You only need the media to be looking for something to report and decide to push the fact that free range birds are being housed and it could have long term effects on sales.
That said I'm not really sure what the answer is, obviously if it's pretty much just in migrating birds then then the problem will disappear for a while at least. If it becomes endemic in our native birds then a complete rethink will be necessary.
We are currently planning turkeys for this year half our sheds are fully enclosed so no problem but the others are half open so will see how things go as to whether we fully or half stock them.
That said I'm not really sure what the answer is, obviously if it's pretty much just in migrating birds then then the problem will disappear for a while at least. If it becomes endemic in our native birds then a complete rethink will be necessary.
We are currently planning turkeys for this year half our sheds are fully enclosed so no problem but the others are half open so will see how things go as to whether we fully or half stock them.
wellingtonfarmer
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- Herefordshire
I think they will allow birds out on 1st march and then there will be another housing order on the 2nd of march!
Eggs are only classed as barn if housed continuously for 12 weeks!
That's what I would do anyway!
Eggs are only classed as barn if housed continuously for 12 weeks!
That's what I would do anyway!
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- south norfolk, uk
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- Near Beeston Castle
I have my sympathies for the free range producers but the barn egg producers wouldn't be very pleased about any premium over their produce for free range.
As a consumer I have the same sympathies but why am I paying more for free range over barn eggs when they haven't been outside?
Besides all that, if this strain is so virulent that all backyard flocks must be kept in etc how come all the wild geese and ducks haven't died? The way this virus is talked about I would expect the obvious carnage myxy brought on the rabbit population when it first appeared.
As a consumer I have the same sympathies but why am I paying more for free range over barn eggs when they haven't been outside?
Besides all that, if this strain is so virulent that all backyard flocks must be kept in etc how come all the wild geese and ducks haven't died? The way this virus is talked about I would expect the obvious carnage myxy brought on the rabbit population when it first appeared.
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- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
I disagree. These are exceptional circumstances
I would suggest that it's going to be common in the future though. I think there are going to be many more autumn / winters like this one in the years to come. It's bleak but it's what we have created. If we start to ease the standard for free range, where does it end?
If not 1st March, what date do we set as the cut off for free range? I know a lot of money is riding on this but that is part of the problem. Maybe there shouldn't be so much money riding on it. So what new date do we set?